The Japanese Government Is Lying to the International Community

The Japanese Government Is Lying to the International Community:
the Radiological Situation in and around Fukushima is NOT Safe
Appeal from Etsuji Watanabe: Member of the Japanese anti-radiation citizen-scientist group ACSIR
英語版 http://blog.torikaesu.net/?eid=69

The Japanese government has created foreign language websites which provide the information about radiology in general and the radiological situation in Fukushima. Journalists around the world, our friends and acquaintances living abroad are continually asking us whether the information that these Japanese central and local government websites present to the international community is correct or not. The following is our answer.
[Question 1]
The stories uploaded on these websites give people the impression that worrying about radiation is unnecessary. As for this impression, has Fukushima now really become asafe place to live or visit?
[Answer]
First of all, Japanese anti-nuclear activists and evacuees from contaminated areas in Fukushima and Kanto, have been warning people all over the world NEVER to trust what the Japanese government is saying about both radiology in general and the specific radiological health effects caused by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster (hereafter Fukushima accident) following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11th, 2011.

Prime-minister Shinzo Abe and the Japanese government as a whole including Fukushima prefectural government have repeatedly declared that
“with regard to health-related problems (of the Fukushima accident), I (Abe) will state in the most emphatic and unequivocal terms that there have been no problems until now, nor are there any at present, nor will there be in the future.” (Abe’s statement at a news conference). This claim is completely fabricated and false.

By engaging in this behavior, the Japanese government has been systematically deceiving the public, both nationally and internationally.
Just think of the amount of radioactivity released during the Fukushima accident. One of the standards used to assess the extent of radioactive releases and longtime human health effects is the levels of cesium 137 (Cs137) released into the environment. Based on the Japanese government data (which is an underestimate), the Fukushima accident released 168 times the Cs137 discharged by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This amount is almost the equivalent to the total atmospheric nuclear explosions conducted by the United States on the Nevada test ground. The Nevada desert is not designated as a residential area, but the Japanese government has recommended evacuated residents return to live in areas with radiation levels of up to 20 mSv/year.

By removing economic support for evacuees, the Japanese government has
forced many people who had evacuated from these areas to return.
We estimate that in the Fukushima accident approximately 400-600 times the Cs137 were released into the atmosphere of the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima. Roughly 80-120 Hiroshima-equivalents, were deposited on Japan. Of this, the decontamination efforts have only been able to retrieve five Hiroshima-equivalents. The waste from decontamination efforts is typically stored all over Fukushima mostly in mountainous heaps of large plastic bags. This means that 75-115 Hiroshima-equivalents of Cs137 still remain in Fukushima, surrounding prefectures, and all over Japan.

[Question 2]
These websites also point out that the international annual dose limit for the public is at 1mSv, but this level is easily exceeded by only one CT-scan, insinuating that this 1mSv standard is set too low and thus not a useful indicator.

[Question 3]
One of the websites states: “In Fukushima, the indoor radiation doses are now so reduced that no radioactive cesium can be found in the air. Therefore, no radioactive particles can invade the human body during breathing.” What do you think of this statement?
The interview is provided by
Hong Kong Society for the Study of
Nuclear Radiation(香港核能輻射研究會)
★渡辺悦司氏（市民と科学者の内部被曝問題研究会会員)
「台湾・香港のジャーナリストの質問に答えて―日本政府は国際社会に虚偽の情報を流している―福島と周辺地域の放射能汚染は決して安全・安心な状況にはない」

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It is amazing that the biological effects of reduced insect life,
radioactive fishing boats and fresh catch, do not send all Japanese
screaming with demands to stop the death.
Admit the truth, your industrial indoctrination has blinded the World.
Death is in your children’s food, water, air, manufactured goods.
The education system, full of high-pressure demands, ignores
the obvious destruction happening to us all.
Everybody visitng Japan needs to document the Radiation data
and report with videos, like the early days after Fukushima 3/11/11.

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